Photographers shoot for excellence

The Caymanian Compass and Cathy Church’s Photo Centre ran their annual photography competition last month with the focus being on ‘water’.

We had nearly 150 entrants with the photography being of a very high standard. Twelve finalists were chosen by Cathy Church herself with the winners going to go into the Cayman Free Press 2011 calendar. Cathy said of the judging, “The entries this year were fabulous and varied. I looked for classic composition, good photographic technique as well as interest and whether the theme of water was visually well represented in the photo. I invited the opinions of five other photographers and, as always, everyone had different opinions. Everyone can choose their own favourites and those who did not win should not be discouraged.”

The winner was Mike Sutton-Brown with his “tarpon with silversides” photo.

Mike said, “The photograph was taken at Eden Rock towards the end of the day. I had taken a photo like this once before and wanted to try and improve it. I was very happy with the way this one turned out and hope that people will enjoy it.”

Second place went to Ales Cevala with his wonderful iguana coming out of the water. And third place to Tonny Yong with a beautiful photo of the Valhalla in George Town at dusk. The other finalists were Georgia Woodcock, Cristina Tasani, Barbara Virano, Melissa Leslie, Gina Athey, Greg Lipton, Fakry Jaffar, Sarah Bartell and Suraj Lama. There were also honourable mentions to Carol Kerr, Diana Brodowska, Gareth Jagger and Vanessa Polack. All the finalist photo’s can be viewed on caycompass.com with the calendar going on sale 1 October at Cayman Free Press and other retail outlets.